Locally Grown - Availability for January 21st, 2015

Hey Local Food Lovers,

I hope everyone gets to enjoy either a little time off for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, or is participating in the MLK Day of Service! I’ll be doing the latter tomorrow at a Garden Workday in Clarkesville at our GreenWay Garden. Anybody looking to enjoy the warm afternoon in the sunshine is welcome to join us from 1-4 pm if you’re close to Clarkesville and would like to see an organic garden and what winter chores look like. It’ll be a combination of mulching fruit trees, digging up raspberries (in fact you might be able to take a few cuttings home with you) and some shed clean up!

I really like the MLK Day of Service slogan, “make MLK a day on, not a day off.” Though we didn’t organize a unique MLK event just for Locally Grown this year, we are in the process of developing several activities that supportive community members could be a huge help to us and our farmers in 2015. Here’s a short list and if you have special skills or interest in any of the above please let us know.

• We’re considering how to BUILD a SHED somewhere near our Gainesville location that would allow us to store our coolers, shelving, boxes and signs in between markets. A shed would also allow us to start receiving items from farms and producers located closer to Gainesville which we hope to do by spring.
• Grace Calvary Church in Clarkesville has been the best possible host for our market there we ever could have imagined. To show our appreciation, sometime in 2015 we would like to help take care of the CARPORT where we have our pickups. A WORKDAY would consist of cleaning the roof of some little trees starting to grow on it, and painting some or all of the outside.
• June 27th is our 2015 FARM TOUR and this year we are planning to do help some of the farms that participate in the tour by organizing a handful of CROP MOBS to help them clean up their farms, and get a handle on the weeds, etc. before the BIG TOUR. If you are interested in being involved in helping farmers during their busiest point in the season get in touch with Andrew the 2015 TOUR COORDINATOR at foodandfaces@yahoo.com
• Locally Grown is hoping to attend several events in the Gainesville / Hall County community this year just to get our name and mission out there. One of them is coming up soon, the BUY LOCAL SAFE and GREEN EXPO on FEBRUARY 5th. If you’d be interested in helping us hand out fliers and business cards at this event please let us know. There will be other opportunities this year for customers to lend to our little market some new faces and testimonials. You guys have always talked us up better than we ever could ourselves.

Well that’s about it for tonight. This week I really enjoyed cooking up some collard greens, having some Cheddar Dill Bread from Habersham Bakers, and adding fresh cilantro to my meatballs instead of parsley.

Have a Great MLK DAY and
EAT WELL,

Justin, Chuck, Andrew, and Teri